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it's as if city is not there. so there's an idea here that the peace organization needs to be in more peaceful surroundings. often there were proposals for islands. this is from sioux st. marie, michigan. there's a very similar design for niagara falls. these were border proposals that joined the towns on both sides of the border, so michigan and the twin town in canada and the same with niagara falls. modern buildings, symbolic traffic circles, right? linking roads from both continents are part of these designs. and finally, pack to our friends in -- back to our friends in south dakota. this is the design for the world capital in the black hills. this would have been in a valley in the black hills. um, and what you're seeing here is a central tower structure, and this, it looks like concentric circles, but it's actually a spiral to allow the united nations to grow and grow and grow. in perpetuity. and here you see small office structures for the delegations which look to me a little bit like suburban cul-de-sac d
it's as if city is not there. so there's an idea here that the peace organization needs to be in more peaceful surroundings. often there were proposals for islands. this is from sioux st. marie, michigan. there's a very similar design for niagara falls. these were border proposals that joined the towns on both sides of the border, so michigan and the twin town in canada and the same with niagara falls. modern buildings, symbolic traffic circles, right? linking roads from both continents are...
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part of the nation's greatest city. drawn by the magnetic force, day and night, freight trains rush towards the hudson river, sweep down its eastern bank for 140 miles, dies at what they were into the two and a half mile tunnel which burroughs beneath the clear and swank of park avenue, and then grand central station. crossroads of a million private lives, gigantic stage on which are played 1000 from his daily. just imagine listening to it on the radio in some other part of the country and the image that that would conjure up in your mind. since then the terminal has threaded itself into popular culture even more. madman's roger sterling forced himself on oysters and martinis there. cary grant called his mother from a phone booth before fleeing down on the 20th century limited north by northwest. animals brought in the main concourse in madagascar. it's interesting, we again take it for granted that from a commercial standpoint grand central was one of america's first multi-use buildings. it incorporated shops, restaura
part of the nation's greatest city. drawn by the magnetic force, day and night, freight trains rush towards the hudson river, sweep down its eastern bank for 140 miles, dies at what they were into the two and a half mile tunnel which burroughs beneath the clear and swank of park avenue, and then grand central station. crossroads of a million private lives, gigantic stage on which are played 1000 from his daily. just imagine listening to it on the radio in some other part of the country and the...
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that's exactly what happened in this city. and it wasn't the people were necessary big spenders but for another 20 cents, they would support living wages in their community. >> is that cut down the other waitressing jobs? >> well, that is a big debate in economics, whether what really happens is you stop hiring. and th effects are evident, this after all, years and years and years. the facts are you don't see that. the rate at which it increases may slow down slightly. so like an example like at a mcdonald's, you start to have the machines were people fill up their own classes instead of having somebody fill up the glass. but generally speaking there isn't evidence that shows that employment goes down. i mean, it may go down a little bit. sometimes it may go up a little bit. and it may go up because people are willing to say, you know, we are ethical people. we want to see the workers have a decent wage. and if a restaurant is doing that, great. we will go to that restaurant and that is exactly what happened when it became one
that's exactly what happened in this city. and it wasn't the people were necessary big spenders but for another 20 cents, they would support living wages in their community. >> is that cut down the other waitressing jobs? >> well, that is a big debate in economics, whether what really happens is you stop hiring. and th effects are evident, this after all, years and years and years. the facts are you don't see that. the rate at which it increases may slow down slightly. so like an...
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the city has become re-segregated as have a lot of cities around the country that no longer buys a racial balance. so you've got residential segregation. segregation is still an evil. it still causes problems. people can't digest while a society. we are at our reach is what we have a diverse culture, when we have a diverse student body, diverse administration. >> up next, charlene mires from 1944 to 1946. [applause] >> thank you very much. thanks for coming, everyone. let me say thanks to all of you. those of us who righted the research are dependent on a vast network of support in a public thanks to archivists, historians, colleagues and trends in the editors and publishers who helped me on the journey that i'm going to be speaking with you about tonight. i want to start out by saying something you probably never heard, that it's okay to laugh. as a cartoon on the screen suggests, there are some laughable moments to the story that were going to be thinking about together today. some of it is going to start you have 70 anodized from advantage point. we think that the years 1944 to 46, the
the city has become re-segregated as have a lot of cities around the country that no longer buys a racial balance. so you've got residential segregation. segregation is still an evil. it still causes problems. people can't digest while a society. we are at our reach is what we have a diverse culture, when we have a diverse student body, diverse administration. >> up next, charlene mires from 1944 to 1946. [applause] >> thank you very much. thanks for coming, everyone. let me say...
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you imagine all the counties and all the other cities; then all the city councils they can be elected to, halftime city coup sill, ect.. woah. i added that up and estimated that's tom 500,000 political seats one can be elected to in the united states of america. 500,000. woah. it's less than 50 people of color. this is the middle of the 1960s. we're going to patrol the police to try to capture the imaginations of the people and start oging them politically. go after the political policies, we want them to seek the majority, change the races laws in the city's charters, changed the laws in the community level, ect.. that's very, very important. that's what we will do with that, and they jump up, 14 of us, we really train this group, and only one person talks, ect., we train and our guns were loaded, some think they were unloaded. they were loaded. i would never go out in the street with an unloaded gun. those were the two to be used in a particular time in a particular situation, but more importantly, we had the law books with us. we had the tape recorders. i put a tape recorder and hu
you imagine all the counties and all the other cities; then all the city councils they can be elected to, halftime city coup sill, ect.. woah. i added that up and estimated that's tom 500,000 political seats one can be elected to in the united states of america. 500,000. woah. it's less than 50 people of color. this is the middle of the 1960s. we're going to patrol the police to try to capture the imaginations of the people and start oging them politically. go after the political policies, we...
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and a magical way to see the city from a different angle. >> avenue. this gentleman down here in the brown coat please. >> that's great. >> if i can stand for this mainly because i have been sitting for too long. for brian -- >> can you please -- speak up. >> can you hear me now? feel like and a commercial. i will preface what i am saying. >> one minute is all. left to make it quick. >> i spent my living -- < a lot of time living on an offshore oil platform. you gazed out at one of those let's send it was me, but i became aware of the to mush in the legacy, very sophisticated boats. they had gotten this possibly because of contact with navigator's coming, literally across the pacific. have you learned anythin those lines to bac. >> this is -- fiesta of causation from the polynesian and the 2-mile. no. it is based -- the theories that say this based on very fragile linguistic data. my judgment i think that the plank and newt is an indigenous development. it is a reflection of an application of the water where there was ocean water navigation were they b
and a magical way to see the city from a different angle. >> avenue. this gentleman down here in the brown coat please. >> that's great. >> if i can stand for this mainly because i have been sitting for too long. for brian -- >> can you please -- speak up. >> can you hear me now? feel like and a commercial. i will preface what i am saying. >> one minute is all. left to make it quick. >> i spent my living -- < a lot of time living on an offshore oil...
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go to union city. okay, i believe you will go to union city. i didn't go on my own because unions piteously clannish place. some professor shows up and says i miss professor. tell me about your schools. i'm not sure but the reception would've been. i had a voucher for a guy who is sitting over here. he came at me and said basically he is a good guy and courtney somebody who the district as well and trust well. so i spent some time looking at preschools and i knew it through eighth grade, reading and math test scores were really good. so i was in one of the schools that has a preschool through eighth grade program. i thought i am going to wander in the school and duck in a classroom and see what they are like. i was impressed by what i saw. so i thought the nice thing about being professors you get these things called sabbaticals. you get a year doing something else away from home. why don't i come back here and spend a year hanging out and see what's happening because there's been a lot of books about great teachers in grade schools. there's no
go to union city. okay, i believe you will go to union city. i didn't go on my own because unions piteously clannish place. some professor shows up and says i miss professor. tell me about your schools. i'm not sure but the reception would've been. i had a voucher for a guy who is sitting over here. he came at me and said basically he is a good guy and courtney somebody who the district as well and trust well. so i spent some time looking at preschools and i knew it through eighth grade,...
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she decided that would be a good city to bring up this boy. she met in a couple of years a very nice man named gerald ford and married him. and he was the finest stepfather that any child could ever hope to have. >> what was the story of his original father, leslie king, coming to grand rapids? >> oh, that was such a mean, mean story. jerry ford in depression, the family had had quite a good paint store, a good living. but then in the depression, nobody painted their houses. so he had to work at a luncheonette to pay his way through high school. he saw this man standing by the door, and it was not somebody he'd ever seen before. when there were no customers, he came over and said to young jerry, he was 17 then, you jerry ford? and he said, yeah. he said, i'm your father. just like that. somebody who had never, ever been in touch with him. it was quite shocking. he did then take jerry out to lunch and wanted to -- i guess he saw what a fine boy he was, the father had a ranch in wyoming, and obviously was doing very well, because he had come to
she decided that would be a good city to bring up this boy. she met in a couple of years a very nice man named gerald ford and married him. and he was the finest stepfather that any child could ever hope to have. >> what was the story of his original father, leslie king, coming to grand rapids? >> oh, that was such a mean, mean story. jerry ford in depression, the family had had quite a good paint store, a good living. but then in the depression, nobody painted their houses. so he...
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, we hear anecdotes and stories of things that might have happened in this military unit or in that city, but we really don't kw, and it is such a sealed country. and when the day comes where it opens up. and you see a unification like the germany, we'll find out about the political dissent in the country. >> host: do you see the regime as really rigid and, therefore, more likely to crack or do you think it is flexible in the sense it has muddled through now, despite incredible global changes, in the international environments? how to evaluate the character of the regime in order to have a sense of what might come later on. >> guest: i think it is -- if you pose that spectrum, i think it is more on the brittle end of the spectrum, rather one that is mallable. the reason it has been able to muddle through is because the second factor we talked about, it's managed to muddle through not because of anything internal but because of what is happening out of north korea, and that is this dynamic where nobody really wants to put in the effort to change it or to solve the problem, and there's one
, we hear anecdotes and stories of things that might have happened in this military unit or in that city, but we really don't kw, and it is such a sealed country. and when the day comes where it opens up. and you see a unification like the germany, we'll find out about the political dissent in the country. >> host: do you see the regime as really rigid and, therefore, more likely to crack or do you think it is flexible in the sense it has muddled through now, despite incredible global...
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city about beauty, introspection. it is the city to get this done. as i let it back, i started to look at every sysadmin money and save the money was in rented and replaced all these other money because there is a peer-to-peer economy aristocracy did maintain control, so they said if he goes on to transact, borrow money at interest. it is a clever idea and it worked. but now we wake up and think this stuff is money. you never say this is something else. what is this stuff? is what we use now is money. we live for certain anopheles have maintained that this is money. if something is the only program you have come you take at face lu. every computer at the windows operating system comment there would be no such thing. it's just a computer. until you have choice come you don't even know it's there. so that was the driving force behind my stuff. elected judaism that way, this revolution. were going to keep renewing it and i was arguing how judaism had got locked down because of the persecution and we lost the open source quality. i don't see present shoc
city about beauty, introspection. it is the city to get this done. as i let it back, i started to look at every sysadmin money and save the money was in rented and replaced all these other money because there is a peer-to-peer economy aristocracy did maintain control, so they said if he goes on to transact, borrow money at interest. it is a clever idea and it worked. but now we wake up and think this stuff is money. you never say this is something else. what is this stuff? is what we use now is...
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leave the city. is there a concern when people move back into the city has to people they are displacing? not primarily. people will say i moved to the center -- i moved to 14th street because i really want to be in a diverse area. again, if you want to be in an adversary you're better off to the suburbs because that is where increasingly in future years diversity's born to be. the center of the city is going to be diverse racially, but it will not be diverse as much by class terms. that is, you will see a large middle-class african-american population living in the city and the desirable parts of northwest, but you will see a lot of poor people there. those people will be moving further out. i think that is probably a foregone conclusion to some extent. >> and it is not just about black people or african-american people but all of us to make the community. poor endo class and rich and the homeless man to me is just as important as the judge so i guess that is my question you push the community out.
leave the city. is there a concern when people move back into the city has to people they are displacing? not primarily. people will say i moved to the center -- i moved to 14th street because i really want to be in a diverse area. again, if you want to be in an adversary you're better off to the suburbs because that is where increasingly in future years diversity's born to be. the center of the city is going to be diverse racially, but it will not be diverse as much by class terms. that is,...
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and so they kept this other copy, and that's the one that's in dodge city. and there were, there were several other attempts to publish that because in 1955 when the television show came out, how many of you could seem the theme song? i won't make you sing it, but you do know it, right? brave, courageous and bold. so when all the publicity came out about the television show, it eventually led to the feoff you of maaed -- nephew of maddie blalock earp remembering something about a relationship between his aunt and wyatt earp, and that's when the story of maddie blalock came out. so it didn't come out until 11 years after josephine died. and the sisters who had written her memoir, who had worked on that memoir with josephine were not surprised. they had always suspected that there was a story like that, and that's why josephine had been so nervous. .. then bear any resemblance to truth. it's a terrible and very themed tv movie with marie osmond -- i swear. i we should never have been. so this is just as six weeks, so who knows what the future was told. i certa
and so they kept this other copy, and that's the one that's in dodge city. and there were, there were several other attempts to publish that because in 1955 when the television show came out, how many of you could seem the theme song? i won't make you sing it, but you do know it, right? brave, courageous and bold. so when all the publicity came out about the television show, it eventually led to the feoff you of maaed -- nephew of maddie blalock earp remembering something about a relationship...
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as a city that runs on bribes. city where the banks succeeded in enlisting to the force of the state. let me tell you something about david which is mainly from reading his last book the fantastic tight "debt, the first 5,000 years." i read it it was a revelation to me. one of the sprawling romps through human history that i, myself, thought nobody wrote anymore. that kind of thing. i don't know if you are familiar with the "golding bow." i don't know if anybody reads it or appropriate to make the comparison. it struck me as that kind of book. written on the same sort of sweeping scale and showing the same kind of grand historical originality. and the kind of book where you know as soon as you read through a single chapter that it's going overturn all sorts of things that the world insists to be true. going remind you how little we really know about the human path. how much we simply project on to the path with the theory and aid yolingsz. what was frightening a book largely concerned with bronze age society could
as a city that runs on bribes. city where the banks succeeded in enlisting to the force of the state. let me tell you something about david which is mainly from reading his last book the fantastic tight "debt, the first 5,000 years." i read it it was a revelation to me. one of the sprawling romps through human history that i, myself, thought nobody wrote anymore. that kind of thing. i don't know if you are familiar with the "golding bow." i don't know if anybody reads it or...
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building in the 9th ward up to the present using school as a microcosm to discuss the history of the city and education reform more broadly, and i was encouraged by colleagues who read early drafts to take a broader approach and settled on the idea following three different schools, and i wish the narrative might have been tidier if i just focused on one school like douglas, but as most of you know, the schools here are so varied in terms of their progress, experiences, and success that i felt like, in the end, one setting would have been too limited. i also planned, at one point, to have whole chapters or sections of the book devoted to sort of detours to other cities like new york, washington, d.c., and have sections on president obama or arnie duncan, and at one point, i presented to an adviser in a fellowship i had including the writer, and he came up afterwards saying it was a stupid idea because the people and experiences in new orleans were so compelling and interesting on their own, and so i settled on the idea of structuring the book around three schools with one person preimmine
building in the 9th ward up to the present using school as a microcosm to discuss the history of the city and education reform more broadly, and i was encouraged by colleagues who read early drafts to take a broader approach and settled on the idea following three different schools, and i wish the narrative might have been tidier if i just focused on one school like douglas, but as most of you know, the schools here are so varied in terms of their progress, experiences, and success that i felt...
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geological times is difficult for people to grasp and i was talking to a group of ladies in kansas city about the likely eruptions in yellowstone national park which is a fairly titanic event and i said when the volcano finally he erupts all of the great cities of the northwest united states like seattle and portland and san francisco and self of vancouver, they will be buried under hundreds of feet of ash. don't worry because it will be at least 250 fils and years by time humankind will be totally extinct. everybody was relieved except for this woman in the front row who got sort of red faced and she said even americans will be extinct? [laughter] we will certainly be extinct in 170 million, even americans. [laughter] it has a life span, toole life span of of 4 million, and more or less in the middle of that period where we are now, there is a very slim in geological times a period of 200,000 years when humankind in habits the ocean and that is the period that i concentrate on because that is where the rich stories come from and of the way that i decided to organize that because hell o
geological times is difficult for people to grasp and i was talking to a group of ladies in kansas city about the likely eruptions in yellowstone national park which is a fairly titanic event and i said when the volcano finally he erupts all of the great cities of the northwest united states like seattle and portland and san francisco and self of vancouver, they will be buried under hundreds of feet of ash. don't worry because it will be at least 250 fils and years by time humankind will be...
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resurrection city quickly became a renowned concert you. the tent city even had its own zip code in part for residents to receive government benefits. also intentional efforts to foster a sharing of different cultural styles and knowledge particularly through the many races soul center. the soul center, located in the small so-called white section of resurrection city fostered intercultural exchange among the campaign's diverse participants. coordinated by the highlander folk school, the center organized activities ranging from historical discussions to live performances. while organizers sponsored well known artists, a particular interest was finding musicians and artists from among the residents themselves. other writing by the residents. when the rain started, a shelter was built above the fire where coffee was always boiling and around which good conversation or singing was always taking place, wrote miles horton. long having understood cultural understanding through music and art. the scheduled sessions soon gave way to an 18-hour roun
resurrection city quickly became a renowned concert you. the tent city even had its own zip code in part for residents to receive government benefits. also intentional efforts to foster a sharing of different cultural styles and knowledge particularly through the many races soul center. the soul center, located in the small so-called white section of resurrection city fostered intercultural exchange among the campaign's diverse participants. coordinated by the highlander folk school, the center...
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mark's school in salt lake city. prior to her position dr. holleran was an assistant professor at kentucky university and a visiting assistant professor of dade college. she earned her b.a. at american university and a ph.d. in american history and the university of california. she has been a research fellow at the huntington library and an american institute university scholar. in addition to thomas nast the father of modern political cartoons she has contributed to europe working since 1789 encyclopedia of early american world. dr. heller published numerous essays including shall i trust trust -- and fathers preachers rebels u.s. history and literature 1820s to 1825 and propose everything opposed nothing but political cartoons of thomas nast and drawing the line in cartoons and history. please join me in welcoming dr. holleran to the filson. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you mark and thank you ald scott for helping to make this possible and to help answer any questions especially scott and jay my very closest friends. they told
mark's school in salt lake city. prior to her position dr. holleran was an assistant professor at kentucky university and a visiting assistant professor of dade college. she earned her b.a. at american university and a ph.d. in american history and the university of california. she has been a research fellow at the huntington library and an american institute university scholar. in addition to thomas nast the father of modern political cartoons she has contributed to europe working since 1789...
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the city will also cover lawyer fees for occupy wall street for this case. stay up-to-date on breaking news about authors, books and publishing by lighting us on facebook at facebook.com/booktv. or follow us on twitter at booktv. .. and find it somewhat foreign. it's also written for the parents of other students as well. >> souvenir asked as a college professor, what will make my son or daughter successful, what is your short answer by >> my short answer is independence and responsibility and that's the thing parents may not want to your guess that means they have to pull back. when we get to my college, it's a chance for them to be responsible for what they need to do and that is the most part skill for that. >> what is your responsibility as a college professor to make that successful? >> guest: my job is to challenge them and that is something people are quite ready for would make it here. we want a friendly environment for them. this is where we want them to feel it's open to consider new ideas. my job is to take bad, give them ideas, but thinking new r
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southern city. borders kentucky. the second thing is, he was asked by a surgeon who had just and a nose job on a woman. he went comanche was pretty attractive. so he did not just change it once did the three times a day. the problem was, she just wasn't any woman, she was the girlfriend of one of the mob guys from across the river in covington, kentucky. and one day to guys in a buick roadster show up at the hospital with bulges and asked for dr. amen -- dr. emanuel at the front desk. fortunately the woman at the front desk was smart enough to see that it was not something quite right about those jackets, called up the chief resident who is a very proper jet -- british sky in says she thinks dr. emanuel is in danger. he is whisked out of the hospital, stuffs money in his shirt and tells him that he ought to up by a ticket to canada. apparently he does not have a passport because it not come back to his room. my dad is a very charming guy and is one of these guys, you sit down in a restaurant and before you know what
southern city. borders kentucky. the second thing is, he was asked by a surgeon who had just and a nose job on a woman. he went comanche was pretty attractive. so he did not just change it once did the three times a day. the problem was, she just wasn't any woman, she was the girlfriend of one of the mob guys from across the river in covington, kentucky. and one day to guys in a buick roadster show up at the hospital with bulges and asked for dr. amen -- dr. emanuel at the front desk....
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the city has become resegregate. it does have a lot of cities around the country that no longer bus for racial balance. so you have financial segregation. segregation is still uneven, still causes problems. these people can't. with one race. and our richest we have a diverse culture. we have a diverse student body, the versus ministration. >> for more and permission of book tv recent visit to virginia beach, virginia and the many other cities visited by our local content vehicles, go to c-span.org / local content. >> join as this month discusses his book national staff writer for "the washington post. prime time programming concludes at 11:00 p.m. eastern. on the future of medicare. she discusses her book medicare meltdown. how wall street and washington are ruining medicare and how to fix it. visit booktv.org for more information object schedule. >>> up next, james antle. editor of the daily caller news foundation presents the thought on the danger of a large federal government. it's about fifty minutes. a lot of qu
the city has become resegregate. it does have a lot of cities around the country that no longer bus for racial balance. so you have financial segregation. segregation is still uneven, still causes problems. these people can't. with one race. and our richest we have a diverse culture. we have a diverse student body, the versus ministration. >> for more and permission of book tv recent visit to virginia beach, virginia and the many other cities visited by our local content vehicles, go to...
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if you are in a city come you can take a tour on a segue. the technology is around and maybe we'll have some bigger use in the future. the point is that he obviously became wealthy off of his inventions, but if you look at how they track over time, you couldn't necessarily put them together and say he knew exactly what he was doing. in fact, the way he first got in was building the slideshows that that were synchronized to music and he eventually was able to install some of that technology as a teenager at the planetarium in new york. so you know, tinkerers don't necessarily know where they're going, but they can still end up doing great things. i also talk about thomas edison in the book. of course the inventor of the century. he was held as the wizard of admiral park. again, probably the same issue is that he raised the bar so high in terms of what people thought of tinkering that he almost seemed otherworldly. but i tell the story of my book at the mention of the device in this photo, which demanded being a novice take haitian machine. it
if you are in a city come you can take a tour on a segue. the technology is around and maybe we'll have some bigger use in the future. the point is that he obviously became wealthy off of his inventions, but if you look at how they track over time, you couldn't necessarily put them together and say he knew exactly what he was doing. in fact, the way he first got in was building the slideshows that that were synchronized to music and he eventually was able to install some of that technology as a...
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. >> host: temple city, california. hi, bob. >> caller: am i really on or no? >> host: yes, you are. >> caller: okay. mr. elder, you're the best. i've been listening to you. 38 year withs army, three wars, blown up in iraq, 32 years hapd. that's not my question. my question is when are you going to stop playing around d lack of words -- and run for president? [laughter] >> guest: two things could happen if i run. one of them is i could win, the other one is i could lose, and both of them are bad. [laughter] but thank you for that. i've given it some thought, seriously, and i came this close to running for senate against barbara boxer, and i flew to d.c., and i met a bunch of senators. my be arena lost by ten points, i could have. >> host: larry elder, what do you think about the kerfuffle around dr. ben carson? >> guest: i like dr. carson, and i thought that it was pretty gutsy for him to have said what he said right in front of the president, advocating the use of health savings accounts to deal with medical issues. and i'm not a big proponent of obamacare. i
. >> host: temple city, california. hi, bob. >> caller: am i really on or no? >> host: yes, you are. >> caller: okay. mr. elder, you're the best. i've been listening to you. 38 year withs army, three wars, blown up in iraq, 32 years hapd. that's not my question. my question is when are you going to stop playing around d lack of words -- and run for president? [laughter] >> guest: two things could happen if i run. one of them is i could win, the other one is i could...
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the city was not going to repeal the ruling, which i didn't know either because the city said it would be hoped liable for damages from the railroad if it appealed and missed the bus and was damages to come up to $80 million, which in those days was a lot of money. so jacqueline anastas read a story in "the new york times," learning about the hoped for an appeal. word doc on that later became part of the landmark conservation commission was an intern i picked up the phone and yelled over to the head of landmark preservation commission. as a woman who says she's jacqueline onassis, followed and of course it was. one of the things i enjoyed in researching the book was discovering secrets of grand central terminal. the goal in the place and see out the spare lightbulbs on the marquee in front of it. this giant, ornate brass chandeliers with their lightbulbs. couldn't they afford crystal or clothes or something a little more ornate quake varied delivery. the vanderbilts for showing off electricity. this is that gas or some other means of illumination. we've got lightbulbs, which in 1913 we
the city was not going to repeal the ruling, which i didn't know either because the city said it would be hoped liable for damages from the railroad if it appealed and missed the bus and was damages to come up to $80 million, which in those days was a lot of money. so jacqueline anastas read a story in "the new york times," learning about the hoped for an appeal. word doc on that later became part of the landmark conservation commission was an intern i picked up the phone and yelled...
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and a mesa is a the 38th largest city in the train it with a population of about 450,000. to some degree it's grown because it's in the phoenix metropolitan area which is well over three and a half million. one of the largest metropolitan areas in the united states. but nevertheless, mesa is developing a diverse economy. originally a grew up around agriculture of course. they're still in agricultural sector but it's by no means the most important. now we have aviation, a lot of modern technology companies, and, of course, tourism has always been an activity in mesa. so it's a more diverse economy now. as i say, fairly robust economy given the economic downturn that the whole country has recently experienced. i think it's extraordinary important to know about the history of the city you live in, because it in some ways has cheated its future but it gives you perspective that earlier governments made. atg about the history of the country as well as about the history of your community. but it points the way towards the future. it also gives you warnings. for example, water ha
and a mesa is a the 38th largest city in the train it with a population of about 450,000. to some degree it's grown because it's in the phoenix metropolitan area which is well over three and a half million. one of the largest metropolitan areas in the united states. but nevertheless, mesa is developing a diverse economy. originally a grew up around agriculture of course. they're still in agricultural sector but it's by no means the most important. now we have aviation, a lot of modern...
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a city in a box. there was no natural port in nome so once you got off the boat you have to get on these other little boats and big paul bunyan guys would come out and the women would climb on the backs of these men and be carried out to the shore. so, that is nome and what i'm trying to show you their is what was so unusual was the gold was not under the ground as it usually is and requires a great deal of capital investment. the gold in nome was right on the service, right on the sand of the public beaches in nome so you could go out just with a little pin and go like this and gold nuggets would appear. it was like magic. in the summer of 1900 this was absolutely the place to be. josephine was there when her niece had just recently gotten this picture from josephine's great great great grand nephew and that is a picture of his grandmother, josephine who was there. josephine loved the excitement of nome. she loved everything except the fact that wyatt earp was running the dexter with rooms upstairs f
a city in a box. there was no natural port in nome so once you got off the boat you have to get on these other little boats and big paul bunyan guys would come out and the women would climb on the backs of these men and be carried out to the shore. so, that is nome and what i'm trying to show you their is what was so unusual was the gold was not under the ground as it usually is and requires a great deal of capital investment. the gold in nome was right on the service, right on the sand of the...
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they closed down the whole city to jeeps and soldiers were combing through the streets now. we heard gunfire in other parts. got to the airport. the military occupied the airport because it was military occupied country. they were shouting security. we don't know if they decided not kill us at the massacre site and now they just wanted us out or if there was a gap in communications but at some point they decided to let us get on the plane. allen was -- had electrical charges going from his in mid-from the beating, we walked on to the tarmac and to the plane and as the flight attendants closed the door they handed me with a silver bowl and said, clean him up. we went to bali, made a call to the west. allen reported in detail what hat taken place, and i had -- when we were in hiding we had someone take 18 pictures of us because they had confiscated our equipment and we knew they would deny anything that happened. then they would have to explain what happened to us and i hid that film airplane, and -- film away, and i had taken a towel and wrapped his head around my skirt so we
they closed down the whole city to jeeps and soldiers were combing through the streets now. we heard gunfire in other parts. got to the airport. the military occupied the airport because it was military occupied country. they were shouting security. we don't know if they decided not kill us at the massacre site and now they just wanted us out or if there was a gap in communications but at some point they decided to let us get on the plane. allen was -- had electrical charges going from his in...
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how other the enforcement swear, they're pouring around new york city. so washington writes about overconfidence in the south. there's too much fall guy. is there not a toy branch of the federalist society. i would supervise this. bananas in the teaching market, alex shores interviewed me for a job. look at them for a british point of view. i'm not so sure it was such a great date either. if we stay part of great britain, we'd be in slavery 50 years earlier to remain part of the commonwealth. candidate for the same time we did. [laughter] so i'm kind of a tory and there is a tory point of view to be written. i see them shaking their head and i think i would be very useful. that's a bit of a diversion, the gc the larger implications of the book they hope this stimulates more of a conversation about the early part associate informed our constitutional debates. [inaudible] >> we know that lincoln through the civil war was very much can turn about the fact that would have to be assimilating and integrating the south after the war was over. i'm wondering what
how other the enforcement swear, they're pouring around new york city. so washington writes about overconfidence in the south. there's too much fall guy. is there not a toy branch of the federalist society. i would supervise this. bananas in the teaching market, alex shores interviewed me for a job. look at them for a british point of view. i'm not so sure it was such a great date either. if we stay part of great britain, we'd be in slavery 50 years earlier to remain part of the commonwealth....
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this came up against the requirements of many cities any parade has a permit and the salvation army made it a practice not to apply for permits and to be arrested playing their instruments on their way into the of saul and challenging these and they won a lot and they lost a lot and destabilize the law of the state by challenging these restrictions. but they never made it to the supreme court of the united states because the states were still in power. >>host: when did the first major religious case come before the supreme court? >>guest: cases from the federal territories had come in the 19th century through utah with questions of polygamy but the really major cases made it to the supreme court the late 30's and early forties and they tended not to be the salvation army but the jehovah's witnesses to also caused a lot of trouble. >> and a very interesting case involved a group of witnesses that had gone into a catholic neighborhood in new haven on a sunday morning with the anti-catholic records to distribute literature and they were arrested for peace and preaching without a permit appe
this came up against the requirements of many cities any parade has a permit and the salvation army made it a practice not to apply for permits and to be arrested playing their instruments on their way into the of saul and challenging these and they won a lot and they lost a lot and destabilize the law of the state by challenging these restrictions. but they never made it to the supreme court of the united states because the states were still in power. >>host: when did the first major...
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and i do think in the pig cities, -- big cities, particularly in kabul the gains wimp have made won't go away overnight and they will continue to fight for that. ... >> we just had our radio in tucson, but let me just close with a line from your book. it's not a foreign policy. [laughter]
and i do think in the pig cities, -- big cities, particularly in kabul the gains wimp have made won't go away overnight and they will continue to fight for that. ... >> we just had our radio in tucson, but let me just close with a line from your book. it's not a foreign policy. [laughter]
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going first to chicago then brooklyn which was a separate city. although the north was free for the young black people, there are limits as to what they could do for a living and frederick chose the service industry and became a waiter and a valet. but not just anywhere but in what was at the time, in the early 1890's, the most technologically sophisticated hotel built in the united states. it was the auditorium that stance on south michigan avenue now the home of roosevelt univ. but you can go into the building and it is preserved during the 8093 columbia an expedition world fair. because of how technologically advanced the hotel was it sets the tone for what frederick did later in life in the same way the first job they have been given profession prepares you for what follows with the same trajectory. he began at a very high level. when he moved to new york he began to work for a prominent i intrapreneur tried his hand and real estate development and ax bonneville. it is interesting to think frederic would have gotten the first ideas being a bus
going first to chicago then brooklyn which was a separate city. although the north was free for the young black people, there are limits as to what they could do for a living and frederick chose the service industry and became a waiter and a valet. but not just anywhere but in what was at the time, in the early 1890's, the most technologically sophisticated hotel built in the united states. it was the auditorium that stance on south michigan avenue now the home of roosevelt univ. but you can go...
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do me a favor and ride back down to new york city to make sure he is safe. everything seems great they come to tarrytown and smith by this point* is pretty tired he was up the whole night and he wants to sleep so he turns around and sure enough 6 miles later andre is jumped by militiamen and they for a scam and strip search and find the plans to west point in his boot. quickly will whole plan starts to unravel and arnold gets wind of this and he escapes then washington find out and he quickly sensed his men to get joshua. what is striking is washington has said his disposal john andre and john smith in the exact same plot and both have damning evidence against them and he says to smith, i have enough evidence to hang space your tree. but he doesn't instead he provides them with a court martial with the military trial dating back to the 13th century in which there are some safeguards with the elements of due process that the accused has a fighting chance to defend themselves and the panel is charged with deciding if this man is guilty of war not. after four w
do me a favor and ride back down to new york city to make sure he is safe. everything seems great they come to tarrytown and smith by this point* is pretty tired he was up the whole night and he wants to sleep so he turns around and sure enough 6 miles later andre is jumped by militiamen and they for a scam and strip search and find the plans to west point in his boot. quickly will whole plan starts to unravel and arnold gets wind of this and he escapes then washington find out and he quickly...
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they sued the city during an overnight raid in 2011. according to the lawsuit the city returned only about 1,000 books to the occupily briar. the city will cover lawyer fees for the occupy wall street for this case. stay up to date about breaking news on authors, publishing, and book by liking us on facebook.com or follow us on twitter. you can visit our website booktv.org and click on news about books. you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's the prime time lineup for tonight. coauthor of the "murder in the extreme court" talk about their book with kimberly of the national bar association. we conclude the prime time programming at 11:00 eastern. his book is blood of tyrant. george washington and the forcing the presidency. visit booktv.org for more on the television schedule is. benn steil is next on booktv. he talk about the creation of the brett ton wood system. >> earthquake i'm co-chairman of the counsel. i was told that my soul purpose it to welcome you as i have done to hear benn as he talks about his new book "the battle of bre
they sued the city during an overnight raid in 2011. according to the lawsuit the city returned only about 1,000 books to the occupily briar. the city will cover lawyer fees for the occupy wall street for this case. stay up to date about breaking news on authors, publishing, and book by liking us on facebook.com or follow us on twitter. you can visit our website booktv.org and click on news about books. you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's the prime time lineup for tonight. coauthor of the...
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went to big cities. the model and so forth. and i was going to use sunday as a vehicle to look at the religion -- the role of religion in american life. and just doing my diligence in terms of research and the background of that history to my province back to john winthrop and made the city on the hills beach and roger williams founded ryland and was actually appeared in minister. and, on the basis of total, complete separation of church and state. and i thought i was writing about religious the verdi, and that is covered preseason that i was actually writing about liberty itself. and the argument, in fact, the tunnel should have been the title of the book, argue with the publisher. and did not want roger williams name in the title. chiefly because no one had heard of him. [laughter] >> a commercial. interestingly then make a commercial decision that his network. i thought, your nuts. the rabbi at less satisfaction from being proved right. although, as technically did make the times, the new york times list. the argument was th
went to big cities. the model and so forth. and i was going to use sunday as a vehicle to look at the religion -- the role of religion in american life. and just doing my diligence in terms of research and the background of that history to my province back to john winthrop and made the city on the hills beach and roger williams founded ryland and was actually appeared in minister. and, on the basis of total, complete separation of church and state. and i thought i was writing about religious...
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we went to the tunnels outside of ho chi minh city. the experience of going in those kabul, recognizing what their fathers had to do, what i probably could have been doing at 19, to crawl through those tunnels, even the tunnels that are made into a tourist attraction a little bit. you know, the dirt was taken away and cement, cemented. but only about six of the 15 students were with me could actually make it through the tunnels. it was too scary, to close, too claustrophobic for the. swipes think that give them a vivid sense of what it was like for their fathers. before we got on that trip, we read tim o'briant, the things they could. when he talked about going into those tunnels about imagination seeing the killer, about going into that darkness, not knowing what would be there. i think again it gave us a vivid sense that literature can do this too, but in to be able to take the literature into the world with that i think enhances both of experience in the world and the experience of literature as well. >> four years after the brown v
we went to the tunnels outside of ho chi minh city. the experience of going in those kabul, recognizing what their fathers had to do, what i probably could have been doing at 19, to crawl through those tunnels, even the tunnels that are made into a tourist attraction a little bit. you know, the dirt was taken away and cement, cemented. but only about six of the 15 students were with me could actually make it through the tunnels. it was too scary, to close, too claustrophobic for the. swipes...
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what would make them feel part of a greater city again and? they said you know we would love to have a little garden. that way we could plan their vegetables and fruits and i could spend time with my children and teach them some gardening skills. lo and behold they found an old factory in the factory is no longer there but as you can see all of these plots of land have been sorted out and you cannot buy that land. you can only rent it and you can only rent it in the currency of that town. this is an example of the currency. and you can earn it in all kinds of ways, by changing lightbulbs. there is just a long list of for example cleaning up your neighborhood. these are not actors ladies and gentlemen. these are real people doing a job. and here they are beautifying by planting flowers, putting flowerpots and their windowsills what is really interesting about this is they were able to take a small euro budget and leverage it three times to 20 times in a period of two years. they were able to average two times at the beginning of the program and
what would make them feel part of a greater city again and? they said you know we would love to have a little garden. that way we could plan their vegetables and fruits and i could spend time with my children and teach them some gardening skills. lo and behold they found an old factory in the factory is no longer there but as you can see all of these plots of land have been sorted out and you cannot buy that land. you can only rent it and you can only rent it in the currency of that town. this...
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with the oklahoma city bombing they clearly knew who set off the bomb and he was electrocuted. but then they found evidence, 14 eyewitnesses and eyewitnesses who were questionable who said there was a person who no one could identify with him the morning of the bombing. the prosecutors told the fbi, please, no more investigation because it will ruin the case. the defense will take it and demand exonerating evidence and we will never get the case finish. there is this tendency to finish the case and once it's finished -- speak to not revisit it. the ones who made the decision, this is how things really happened, why go back? even if the evidence suggests that you should go back. you may have very well made a mistake. there there's another thing in reading your book that i should mention the coast it also is part of my experience in dealing with crime. are there cases where you investigate them and you feel you are getting somewhere. you are you're actually moving to some kind of conclusion. i sometimes think of them as mathematical theories, those mathematical theories that conv
with the oklahoma city bombing they clearly knew who set off the bomb and he was electrocuted. but then they found evidence, 14 eyewitnesses and eyewitnesses who were questionable who said there was a person who no one could identify with him the morning of the bombing. the prosecutors told the fbi, please, no more investigation because it will ruin the case. the defense will take it and demand exonerating evidence and we will never get the case finish. there is this tendency to finish the case...
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campaign public financing for all state government elections in new york state, like we have a new your city. public financing of elections. dilemma, the influence of real estate and wall street installation. that's actually something that we can directly get involved in as citizens in new york state, could help lead the way in the country to limit what was talked about, money and elections. >> let me make one observation. let me put a couple things together. when the hedge fund guy came after me, it was an interesting thing because it reflected something that i hadn't thought about before, which is how could they be so touchy? what are they worried about? hey, if i could make a billion dollars on the deal and i didn't -- why would i care what the qubit lobbyist says? i'm not exactly in "the new york times" every week. what i realized was they are word about a popular uproar against them. they are worried that something like occupy wall street is going to happen. because this happened before occupy wall street. they weren't a bunch of people are going to go to the streets and demand their he
campaign public financing for all state government elections in new york state, like we have a new your city. public financing of elections. dilemma, the influence of real estate and wall street installation. that's actually something that we can directly get involved in as citizens in new york state, could help lead the way in the country to limit what was talked about, money and elections. >> let me make one observation. let me put a couple things together. when the hedge fund guy came...
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so i then scoured the city of dynamic car to -- da dakar and tracked down a frenchman and dragged out a backward spinning rod. aarrived at the beach at 5:00 the next morning and these fishermen took one look at me and said, what is that? i said it's a fishing rod. they said, throw that away. so we went out in this -- to hand lines to barracuda. and we got about six miles offshore and i had never been sicner my life. we were about this much about the water level, and they're doing the usual look at the horizon thing. and i'm going to die. and they just -- they almost fell off the boat laughing no white man can do what we do. no white man understands the ocean. at least one does. what took in to the yellowstone book was that love of fishing. but to a very circuitous route. i love to fly-fish. i worked on a book on a very esoteric subject, although random house agreed to publish it, called casting a spell, and i'd become very enamarred of the craft of making bam buoy flyrod which is an intricate and wonderful craft and i became fascinated how they did it. and they got to go fishing with
so i then scoured the city of dynamic car to -- da dakar and tracked down a frenchman and dragged out a backward spinning rod. aarrived at the beach at 5:00 the next morning and these fishermen took one look at me and said, what is that? i said it's a fishing rod. they said, throw that away. so we went out in this -- to hand lines to barracuda. and we got about six miles offshore and i had never been sicner my life. we were about this much about the water level, and they're doing the usual look...
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we do it daily kobold newshour out of new york city. we built our own studio it is the greenest internet tv radio studio in the country we got platinum certification which means the countertops in the green river and the kitchen area are made of crushed recycled bottles cemented together with the data center in the machine room that they have to deal with we pioneered a way because all of the electronics give off so much heat to try to use less energy because we believe the medium is the message than what is interesting is stations can run all day and you can watch online that may put out transcripts. they do watch the broadcast. for those in high school and college duse's tremendous opportunity a civic education when the cast comes out they could ask questions and we talk about what journalism is today in a democratic society. it is a wonderful educational forum with interns and fellows but these glasses come from around the world and in new york city. it is a remarkable experience to had these forums every day. >> host: the next calle
we do it daily kobold newshour out of new york city. we built our own studio it is the greenest internet tv radio studio in the country we got platinum certification which means the countertops in the green river and the kitchen area are made of crushed recycled bottles cemented together with the data center in the machine room that they have to deal with we pioneered a way because all of the electronics give off so much heat to try to use less energy because we believe the medium is the...
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that it is worth extracting through pressure or characteristics in their real place, and their capital city, and our diplomacy with someone to my real life with them, concessions or how they behave at the un because frankly we don't think the un is that important. so we don't wind up forcing them to take account of our positions on things, many of which really do matter to less, at least in the general assembly because we do not think it is worth the price they would have to pay and the real world relationships with them in their own country. and we don't. so the disconnect between how we and our allies ba but the un verses what are frequently far better than our relationships directly and in the capital. >> host: who are the new liberal realists you talk about in your book? >> guest: the obama avenue -- administration came between the two quite different camps on its foreign policy. on the one hand you had a wave of people that i would describe as, typically described as the liberal internationals, people that believe in the mission of the un to not just be this kind of diplomatic table wh
that it is worth extracting through pressure or characteristics in their real place, and their capital city, and our diplomacy with someone to my real life with them, concessions or how they behave at the un because frankly we don't think the un is that important. so we don't wind up forcing them to take account of our positions on things, many of which really do matter to less, at least in the general assembly because we do not think it is worth the price they would have to pay and the real...
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somebody made this city. they choose to make this city this way. you go to other cities and they don't have grid pattern. they are round. someone choose. looking at the world no longer as a set of given circumstance but the set of chces that people made. go like that. it wasn't city about beauty, you know, it wasn't the city to contemplate. as i looked at that. i start to look at every other system. i looked at money. money is a program. money we use was invented in about 11u it replaced the other monies. because there was a peer-to-peer economy rising out of control. rich people to stay rich. we wake up and think it's money. this is money. which is antigeneral semantic. it's not money. what is this stuff? what we use as money. we think of this as money. we live in a world where certain monopoly have maintained it's money. if it's something the only program you have. you tend to take it at face value. every computer had the windows operating system. there would be no such thing as an operating system. it's a computer. physical until you have choice
somebody made this city. they choose to make this city this way. you go to other cities and they don't have grid pattern. they are round. someone choose. looking at the world no longer as a set of given circumstance but the set of chces that people made. go like that. it wasn't city about beauty, you know, it wasn't the city to contemplate. as i looked at that. i start to look at every other system. i looked at money. money is a program. money we use was invented in about 11u it replaced the...
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i came back from mexico city. it wasn't bad for me and her young son over there. i felt the pain because my son suffered, my wife suffered. all of my kids suffered. when you do shop up your kids and tell them to take her clothes and put it against the law and have your way think you lost your mind. you have to think about the fight goes on. i have to say my kids so when i leave here, my kids will know i still fight to make this a better earth. i threw it in the fireplace until my wife, get about the bad. because when you stand with justice, you loose your job. you lose hearing. you can't pay your electric bills, so you don't have heat the house. the unit income in this fight to win. i'm not concerned about the web team. i'm concerned about the vick jury. again about the start. it's about the finish. everybody in here as i stated earlier, when i came in this idea, my job is to reach one person in here. not to touch everybody. one person. johnny, reach one person like you're talking to a thousand. if there's a thousand linear, i want you to focus on talking to that
i came back from mexico city. it wasn't bad for me and her young son over there. i felt the pain because my son suffered, my wife suffered. all of my kids suffered. when you do shop up your kids and tell them to take her clothes and put it against the law and have your way think you lost your mind. you have to think about the fight goes on. i have to say my kids so when i leave here, my kids will know i still fight to make this a better earth. i threw it in the fireplace until my wife, get...
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what would make them feel part of the greater city? and they said, we would really love to have a little garden. that way we can plant our vegetables and fruit skis can spend time with my children and teach them gardening skills. so lo lo andbe hold they found s factory lot. the factory ills is not there. but these little plots of land have been sorted out and you cannot buy that land. you can only rent it. and you can only rent it in a complimentary currency of the town, which is called gorkos. this is the example of the turkish currency. you see a one and a ten and you can earn them in all kind of ways, maybe by changing light blubs into something more energy efficient. getting rid of graffiti. these are not actors. these are real people doing their jobs. and here they are beautifying by planting flowers, putting flower pats in their windowsills. what is really interesting about this is that they were able to take a small euro budget and leverage it three times to 20 times more results in a period of two years. three times at the beg
what would make them feel part of the greater city? and they said, we would really love to have a little garden. that way we can plant our vegetables and fruit skis can spend time with my children and teach them gardening skills. so lo lo andbe hold they found s factory lot. the factory ills is not there. but these little plots of land have been sorted out and you cannot buy that land. you can only rent it. and you can only rent it in a complimentary currency of the town, which is called...
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the travel across entire oceans and swallow cities on the coast. tsunamis have struck throughout history. i found out almost every country and culture have stories of giant, massive killer waves and that's an example of one. a picture of a japanese tsunami, called the great wave. scientists say the tsunami strike every seven years in recent years they have hit indonesia and japan, and that's indonesia in 2004 and japan in 2011. and one of the worst in recorded history ever occurred in japannin' 1896 when a 100-foot high wave killed 22,000 people. 20th century alone, about 50,000 people have died from tsunamis. we still don't know when they'll hit. so it's not if but when the next one will strike. so beware of the waves. thank you. >> we're happy to take questions. you can queue up here at the microphone, or raise your hand and we'll repeat them. ment. >> we'll start in order. one, two, and the microphone is in the middle here. >> i have a very simple question. are you really 12 years old? >> really 12 years old. >> yeah. >> just the size of an nfl
the travel across entire oceans and swallow cities on the coast. tsunamis have struck throughout history. i found out almost every country and culture have stories of giant, massive killer waves and that's an example of one. a picture of a japanese tsunami, called the great wave. scientists say the tsunami strike every seven years in recent years they have hit indonesia and japan, and that's indonesia in 2004 and japan in 2011. and one of the worst in recorded history ever occurred in japannin'...
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he talks about the history of grand central station in new york city. visit booktv.org for more on this weekend's television schedule. author david axe and illustrator taunt the joseph kony to justice. has so far not been successful. this is about an hour. >> i'm david axe i want to start by making it clear it's a comic book we're talking about. a non-fiction. the term we use is graphic novel. it's not a novel. it's a non-fiction book in comics form. tends to throw a lot of people, but for many years now folks have been using comic books to do reporting. tim and i are not the first. but it's stale relatively small field. before i talk about the books specifically, i'm going to be brief because there are other folks and have a discussion i want to take you back about three years, so the 2009, 2010 time frame where i was had spent the previous five years reporting mostly from iraq and afghanistan in a smattering of other conflict zones, but the sort of dominant theme of my reporting looking at it as an american writing for an american audience, the domina
he talks about the history of grand central station in new york city. visit booktv.org for more on this weekend's television schedule. author david axe and illustrator taunt the joseph kony to justice. has so far not been successful. this is about an hour. >> i'm david axe i want to start by making it clear it's a comic book we're talking about. a non-fiction. the term we use is graphic novel. it's not a novel. it's a non-fiction book in comics form. tends to throw a lot of people, but...
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. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to mesa, arizona, and many other cities visited by our local content vehicles, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> in this high-tech digital age with high definition television and digital radio, still all we ever get is static, that distortion in life and misrepresentation. when what we need the media to give us is a dictionary definition of static, criticism, opposition, unwanted interference to need a media that covers power, not covers for power. we need a media that is the fourth estate, not for the state. and we need a media that covers the movements that make history. script author composed and executive producer of democracy now, amy goodman taking your calls, the nose, facebook comments and tweets. in depth, three hours live today at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> you are watching booktv. now peter blair henry argues that the you should look to china, brazil, mexico, and other developing countries to develop its own plan for prosperity. it's about 50 minutes. >> growing up, little boy, on the island of jamaica in the ear
. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to mesa, arizona, and many other cities visited by our local content vehicles, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> in this high-tech digital age with high definition television and digital radio, still all we ever get is static, that distortion in life and misrepresentation. when what we need the media to give us is a dictionary definition of static, criticism, opposition, unwanted interference to need a media that covers power, not...
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you also hear they don't coming interior of cities, completely false. the tornado column, 50,000 feet high, the fact that it is in a building might be a thousand feet high, not going to make any difference. all of these ideas are floating around because people need to have a feeling there's something they can do. there is another way governments, american governments traditionally make people feel better about tornadoes and that was to refuse to talk about them at all. this is another living we have forgotten, there was a period in america from the late nineteenth century until right after world war ii, the national weather service forbid its forecasters from predicting tornadoes. they forbid forecasters to even mention tornadoes. they said there were two reasons, one -- they didn't want to say. the first was they thought this is impossible to predict tornadoes, a prediction would cause a panic which might be worse than the actual tornado. the other reason was they were under a lot of pressure from business interests and real-estate people and didn't th
you also hear they don't coming interior of cities, completely false. the tornado column, 50,000 feet high, the fact that it is in a building might be a thousand feet high, not going to make any difference. all of these ideas are floating around because people need to have a feeling there's something they can do. there is another way governments, american governments traditionally make people feel better about tornadoes and that was to refuse to talk about them at all. this is another living we...
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book expo america in new york city. new details have been released about former secretary of state hillary clinton's forthcoming book. she signed with publisher simon and schuster to write a book about american foreign policy. .. >> first off, looking at the issue of how a city in a desert climate feels with water rights to the colorado river. >> it is accurate, more lawsuits, compact laws created to regulate what is collectively known as the law of the river. there's probably 13-15 major laws that have bannedded the whole 20th century, really, up until the present time, that talk about who gets how much of the water, and who can take it, how much every year, how to share it, and our relationship with mexico and the water as well. the colorado river is about 1450 miles long. it's not the longest river in north america by any means or have the most flow. probably number seven in terms of size, but it drops 8,000 feet or so from its source in the rockies, and it used to flow all the way down to the gulf of california reac
book expo america in new york city. new details have been released about former secretary of state hillary clinton's forthcoming book. she signed with publisher simon and schuster to write a book about american foreign policy. .. >> first off, looking at the issue of how a city in a desert climate feels with water rights to the colorado river. >> it is accurate, more lawsuits, compact laws created to regulate what is collectively known as the law of the river. there's probably 13-15...
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they travel across entire oceans and swallow whole cities on the coast. also tsunamis have struck throughout history. while doing research for this book, i found out almost every country and culture have stories of these giant, massive killer waves, and that's an example of one. it's a picture of a scoop news tsunami, and it's called the great wave. scientists say the tsunamis strike on average every seven years. in recent years they've hit indonesia and japan, and that's indonesia in 2004 and japan in 2011. and one of the worst in recorded history ever occurred in japan many 1896 when a 100-foot-high wave killed 22,000 people. in the 20th century alone, about 50,000 people have died from tsunamis. we still don't know when they will hit, so it's not if, but when the next one strikes. so beware of the wave, thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> we're happy to take questions. you can queue up here at the microphone, or if you're shy about that, raise your hand, and we'll repeat nice and loud -- >> we also have a -- >> oh, yeah, doris, could you also pass o
they travel across entire oceans and swallow whole cities on the coast. also tsunamis have struck throughout history. while doing research for this book, i found out almost every country and culture have stories of these giant, massive killer waves, and that's an example of one. it's a picture of a scoop news tsunami, and it's called the great wave. scientists say the tsunamis strike on average every seven years. in recent years they've hit indonesia and japan, and that's indonesia in 2004 and...